Orientalisme De Zadig

Mollainville (1625–95) compiled an encyclopaedic compendium (1697) of Eastern lore and Antoine Galland (1646–1720) translated both the Koran and the Arabian Nights (1704–17) and thus prepared the ground for the Enlightenment’s fascination with Orientalism. The new ideas The impact of relativism, which undermined France’s assumption of its intellectual and cultural superiority, was compounded by the work of foreign thinkers. The new mathematics of Isaac Newton (1642–1717) undermined Cartesian